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The Portrayal of “The Other” in Pakistani and Indian School Textbooks

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(Re)Constructing Memory: Textbooks, Identity, Nation, and State

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The partition of British India into two states, India and Pakistan (West and East, since 1971: Bangladesh), on the eve of independence from colonial rule in 1947, resulted in a traumatic experience for both new “nations.” The enormous population exchange between the territories, the communal violence with the suffering and huge loss of life that resulted, and the fact that the partition took place against the wishes of the large majority of Indians formed a bitter starting point for the relationship between the new neighbors.

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